TROOPER - Boys in the bright white sports car REACTION - First time hearing

[@TyeDee123]

So glad to see you do a Trooper song. They were an iconic Canadian/Vancouver band with many great hits. Their signature song is Raise a Little Hell, but We're Here For a Good Time and Santa Maria are also great. They have two great ballads as well...Oh, Pretty Lady and Two For the Show that are favourites too.

[@cjpew]

Another Canadian legend. Put on a great live show also. Thanks for more Canadiana ♥

[@marybaillie8907]

Two 4 The Show Raise a Little Hell We're Here For Good Time Oh, Pretty Lady. Thanks for Trooper. Great Canadian band out of Vancouver. 🇨🇦 Their debut album Trooper, was produced by Randy Bachman from The Guess Who/ Bachman Turner Overdrive. Some great guitar work on this song. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Louis. 🎶🎄🎁🎅☃️ Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

[@dagmar.6954]

Another great Canadian rock group from the 70's I grew up with. They had a lot of great songs such as "We're Here For A Good Time (Not a Long Time)", "General Hand Grenade", "3 Dressed Up As A 9", "Janine", "Two For The Show", "Oh, Pretty Lady", "Round & Round We Go" & "Santa Maria".

[@theoriginalskinsey]

I remember an LP Hot Shots? Soooo good!!

[@incensejunkie7516]

@@theoriginalskinsey I had that album! Played it till it scratched so much it was unusable (except for as a frisbee 😄)

[@andyreid6826]

Finally, a reactor does some trooper. Love these guys. Thanks harri

[@dragon-shepherd]

Greetings again from Canada (eh). Trooper was another of the great and somewhat under-rated Canadian bands. It was hard for our groups to get air-time in the US, so We knew about them, but not everyone got to hear their stuff. Pity that.

[@Dee-JayW]

Thank you @Harri for more Canadian content! Saw these guys many, many times. Great, fun band! ❤ 🇨🇦

[@jackndan6603]

Cool,band from my home town. Give General Handgrenade a try.Thanks!😃🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@hunterns37]

These boys got played at every party I was at in the 80"s and early 90"s

[@DocRock71]

Just noticed you hit 100k Subs, Harry! CONGRATS! Love the channel and your joyful and unique reactions!

[@leftcoaster67]

I'm pretty sure Trooper owned this great little club that's shut down called the Starfish Room in Vancouver. So they were the "house band" and would open up for a lot of acts there. They were awesome live even in the 1990's

[@reallymysterious4520]

Hello from a Canadian Friend !! Similar songs - but slightly better than this - Fly at Night by Chilliwack, Beautiful Goodbye by Amanda Marshall, In the End by RUSH, Painted Ladies by Ian Thomas, All we are by Max Webster, Still the one by Orleans, We just disagree by Dave Mason

[@marybaillie8907]

Some great songs and bands. 👍✌️🎶🇨🇦

[@reallymysterious4520]

@@marybaillie8907 Thank you !

[@damonhines8187]

Saw them in a small-ish local hockey arena in late '77 in lower mainland British Columbia. I believe Prism opened. Rockier than I'd expected. Much of their "hit" catalogue elicits mainly a smirk from me, but there you go, or there I go. 🚶‍♂️😉👍🎶💃🤔🤣🙄🕊 Edit: Even a song like 'Here for a Good Time', whether or not it turned into a singalong, clapalong, stompalong or whatever(I don'trecall), still gained added heft from the live energy. ♥️ 🇨🇦

[@shelleybleu4903]

My boyfriend was friends with the drummer Tommy. Went to Seattle with Tommy 1973/4 to hear who I keep thinking was a very young Bonnie Riatt. We hung out out with a very flamboyant woman there. all in black flowy clothes, dramatic hair and make up. She slept in a coffin. she looked good and was very beautiful. Went to a Safeway for groceries and boy, was everyone staring. not you normal surburban housewife. Never will forget that weekend

[@timtabor6893]

Saw these guys live a few times They used to your the country playing lots of smaller venues Terrific band live ! Great set of songs

[@debbieplato5107]

Always liked this song. Another great car song to check out is Red Barchetta by Rush. Cheers

[@diane-]

I remember these guys. Very well known in Canada of course.

[@kirkhall2099]

first time hearing this. Nice

[@isispriest]

Very fun and cool song. Trooper, April Wine, Streetheart, Harlequin, all great 70s Canadian Bands

[@cletushouse906]

Just a real good, feel good song. Good job.

[@hlawrencepowell]

A Canadian legendary rock band. Saw them once, got an invite up on stage so I could shoot some photos and cover the concert for local media. Ra was great. A true gentleman and great talent.

[@anncannon1797]

Great voice!

[@grantschubach5163]

Jeanine is a good one by Trooper or Two for the Show

[@reallymysterious4520]

YES !!!

[@andyreid6826]

Two for the show is a great song

[@bl_leafkid4322]

A friend of mine owned a TR7 it sure was fast Trooper Hot Shots album every song on it was great.

[@marybloody615]

Another Canadian band to check is The Northern Pikes - " She Ain't Pretty"

[@vampfashions]

My favourite song by Trooper was always Round Round We Go but it seems nobody ever finds it long enough to react to it.

[@carlageorge8130]

Should check out Sarah McLachlan great Canadian composer trooper good Canadian band as well

[@cellyblank9919]

Its refreshing to see how many great Canadian bands you've reacted to, Harri! Many reactionists are "discovering" great Canadian talent from the 70s and 80s and wonder why they haven't hear of them. The explanation is simple; mediocre bands can't survive in a small market.

[@vampfashions]

Far from mediocre bands (that's what we have today). The problem is when you get government involved with a heavily subsidized industry. They begin to pick political favourites and great talent is throttled back in favour of hacks from the right "area code". If it wasn't for touring in the prairie live music venues most Canadian bands would have been killed off outright. CanCon rules pissed off the American industry so they were quite happy to restrict access for our bands and artists to get support south of the border.

[@Carrie-so3ro]

@@vampfashions We've got FANTASTIC Canadian music - from the 70s & 80s & beyond even, SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE of CanCon rules! Before these rules, the radio stations PREFERRED TO PLAY FOREIGN MUSIC (esp. American & British who pushed harder & were believed to be what to aspire to) & it was RADIO STATIONS that KILLED OFF GOOD CANADIAN MUSIC IN ITS TRACKS! Once the CanCon rules came into effect radio stations hated it - BUT THE ARTISTS LOVED IT! MANY have been thankful & attributed their being played BECAUSE OF THESE RULES! These are Canadian artists from BC all the way across the country to Newfoundland - so don't put out crazily wrong info about anyone picking political "area code" favourites! I can name groups from ALL across this country that were helped & exposed to the Canadian public because of these rules! ALL of them were great & not "hacks!" Americans (with their HUGE population & love of everything American weren't going to give Canadian musicians a chance - & DIDN'T give many of them a chance BEFORE CanCon rules - so don't believe the lie that it chocked off access! The only ones who really made it in the US were really those who already had success in Canada - BECAUSE Canadian radio stations HAD to allow Canadian musicians a forum - so good Canadian artists got heard! by audiences who would then make them popular here (& only THEN would A FEW get noticed by Americans.) NONE were going to get noticed by Americans (as foreigners) if they weren't ALREADY popular in their own country (Canada). The belief by many in the 70s that everything American is better & what Canadians need to strive for - hurt many Canadians in many ways - but AT LEAST Canadian artists started to be able to show what they could do (which was A LOT) BECAUSE radio stations weren't able to focus on simply American & foreign talent. They HAD to give a showcase to Canadian musicians (which were EVERY BIT - SOMETIMES BETTER - than American & other talent. Almost ALL of the music that I listened to was Canadian in fact, because I preferred them, (& learned of them ON Canadian radio stations), followed by British talent a far second [& American 3rd.]) You are simply mimicking Liberal Party policy making haters - who don't use a single brain cell. Everything to these people that ANY Liberal does is ALWAYS wrong & EVERYTHING the Conservatives do is ALWAYS right. That tells you right there that they lack intelligence or have shut off their brains. No person, Party, organization is ever perfect! NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON! Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody also does some positive things. Depending on your VIEWPOINT, a person/organization (which is made up of all humans) will make more or less mistakes or do more good or less good. Anybody that believes (or says, maybe for their own benefit) that someone is 100% good or 100% bad is NOT ANYBODY to be believed as they don't speak the truth!

[@Nana_Reads]

This was roller rink music!

[@akumacv2075]

Late to the reaction - Trooper got inducted to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame tonight so I went looking for reactions. In regards to Bright White... that's the official name of the paint colour used on certain models of cars throughout the 1970s-1990s.

[@zindi1138]

first concert i went to. 79' ~ drinkin beer in the bar... pillars bar kamloops bc

[@Roof_Pizza]

I picture a Lambo with scissor doors myself.

[@Nana_Reads]

Think the next Canadian band you should do is Prism - Armageddon

[@marybloody615]

Also - "Raise A Little Hell"

[@jamisonhicks5828]

All these comments and not one mention of the song "Love Of My Life". Always been my favorite by Trooper. I'd love to see a reaction to that.

[@1HandGuitar]

Hey check out “Action”by Streetheart, another great Canadian band that song will blow you away!

[@bl_leafkid4322]

This song is on Troopers Hot Shots album not a bad song on it.

[@carlageorge8130]

Her first album is awesome possession one my favorite songs ever like your opinion some people get totally different meaning then her intention.

[@jpdotcom23]

Give a listen to 'Thin White Line' - Trooper

[@grantschubach5163]

Harri the next Canadian band i recommend is Brave Belt and the song 'Dunrobin's Gone', the band Randy Bachman from BTO was in after he left Bachman Turner Overdrive.

[@gvbezoff]

Not so. Brave Belt was Randy's band after the Guess Who but before BTO.

[@bobwirth9256]

Speaking of sports car it was around 86 or 87 i was cruising down the highway blasting the song Driver's seat by Sniff n the tears and so i put the pedal down to the rug and was flying down the road and a cop got me on radar , so i pull over and wait for him , he comes over to the car and ask me do you know how fast you was going , i said probably 120 mph , he said close had you at 130 lol , he say's look my shift is over in 30 minutes and say's if you can give me a good reason you was driving so fast i will let you go , well sir my wife ran off with a cop last month and i was thinking you were going to give her back , he say's have a good day lol.

[@Eclipce_are_cool336]

1st❤

[@0VistaDelMar0]

inspired by a gum commercial

[@elysehfm8797]

HEY HARRI!

[@brianemmanuelgrey9276]

"There They Go.... The Freedom we had back in the 70's was what would be called toxic masculinity today and I am only talking about the cool chicks.

[@patswanson2870]

This isn't one of their best known songs.

[@reallymysterious4520]

Actually IT IS - in their Top 3

[@patswanson2870]

@@reallymysterious4520 I must have been living under a rock. I don't remember hearing it.

[@reallymysterious4520]

@@patswanson2870 Raise a little hell, We're Here for a Good Time, and Two for the Show were bigger

[@claimguy]

@@reallymysterious4520 The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car peaked at # 25, We're Here For a Good Time at #27, and Two for The Show at #32. General Hand Grenade and 3 Dressed up as a Nine charted higher than any of those at # 12 and #24 respectively. It all comes down to personal taste and memory.